Pure Resilience

2022, Oil on Italian Linen, 130 x 130cm

Our resilience as a species has been defined by the cumulative knowledge of our past. The fragility of our future is determined by the same.

In the post-truth era where expertise is demonised, this fragility is magnified.

Symbolising learning and knowledge, the column is separated by an improbable keystone and by logic, should topple. Yet it holds. Against all logic. Held by the belief that knowledge must be honoured, expertise valued and the lessons of history observed.

Because it has to.